Royal Ascot Day Five Preview - 18/06/22

James Mackie | @JMackieRacing

Ascot - June 17 2022
Ascot 17:10
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David Egan

Calling The Wind

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David Egan
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Richard Hughes
Age: 6
Weight: 9-4
OR: 104
Days: 28

The Richard Hughes trained Calling the wind is a bit of a punt in this one at 14/1 off the back of his past form at these sort of distances.

Last season in this race he was a very smart second behind the Willie Mullins trained Stratum running off the same weight as the winner.

He then went to Goodwood for a handicap over a similar trip and franked that form to land a nice event and it looks like these sorts of races with big fields over a trip are his forte.

Dropped in trip since then he has been seen running to a fair level finishing second over 12f at Newbury, third of 32 in the Cesarewitch Handicap at Newmarket and second of 23 back at 12f in the November handicap at Doncaster.

Needing both his races this term running over 12f they have both looked like prep runs for this and he could be interesting back up in trip at 14s.

DateCourseDistanceTypeWeightPosition
04/08/23GOO20.5Sft9-129
01/07/23NCS16.5St/Slw9-41
20/06/23ASC20Gd9-82
12/05/23CHS18.5Sft9-46
11/03/23WOL16.5St9-64